# A Woman Fishing [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [SEURAT, Georges]() - Date: 1851-1900 - Technique: Conté crayon on paper, 308 x 235 mm ## Commentary This crayon study is a preparatory for Seurat's most famous painting, A Sunday afternoon on La Grande Jatte \(Art Instiitute of Chicago\). This painting depicts a scene of Parisians enjoying their day off on an island in the Seine. Seurat, who wanted to make the art of painting objective and systematic, completed at least 32 preparatory drawings and oil sketches for the painting, often working out individual figures in separate drawings. ## Related artworks - [A Sunday Afternoon on the Ile de la Grande Jatte]() - [Angler]() - [Bathers at Asnières]() - [Bec du Hoc, Grandcamp]() - [Circus Sideshow \(detail\)]() - [Circus Sideshow]() - [Couple]() - [Dancers on Stage]() - [Le Chahut]() - [L'Ile de la Grande Jatte]() - [Model from Behind]() - [Models \(detail\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()